Improvising Improvisation – From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature
- Author: Peters, Gary
Peters presents a work on improvisation that is itself an improvisational work-what he calls in chapter 4 a 'live enactment of aesthetic judgment.' As not only a philosopher but an experienced... — More…
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Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 I've Started, so I'll Begin: Heidegger's Other Beginning and the Origin of Improvisation
- 2 With What Must the Improvisation Begin? Kant and Hegel on Certainty
- 3 Memoir: Lol Coxhill (In Memoriam)
- 4 Case Study: The Recedents (Lol Coxhill, Roger Turner, and Mike Cooper)
- 5 Precision, Decision, and Accuracy: Heidegger and Arendt on Singularity and Solitude
- 6 Decentered Center/Displaced Periphery: A Deleuzian Perspective
- 7 Memoir: San Sebastian Jazz Festival, July 20- 25, 1980
- 8 Case Study: Bernard "Pretty" Purdie
- 9 Fixing and Unfi xing Idioms and Non- Idioms: Developing Derek Bailey's Concept of Improvisation
- 10 A Diff erent Sameness: Borges and Deleuze on Repetition
- 11 Memoir: Bluegrass in Cheltenham
- 12 Case Study: The Del McCoury Band
- 13 Virtuality and Actualization: Deleuze and Bluegrass
- 14 Deleuzian Improvisation
- 15 Improvisation and Habit
- 16 Case Study: Jurij Konjar and Steve Paxton: The Goldberg Variations
- 17 Habit and Event: Rehearsing, Practising, Improvising
- 18 Memoir: The Woburn Pop Festival, 1968
- 19 Case Study: Jimi Hendrix
- 20 Composition, Improvisation, and Obligation: Schoenberg and Beckett on Duty
- 21 Bits and Scraps: Derek Bailey and the Improvised Situation
- 22 Memoir: Miles Davis, Royal Festival Hall, July 1984
- 23 Case Study: Cyndi Lauper, "Time After Time"
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index